... Aside from the fact that Oreopithecus died and presumably lived in a swampy forest, what reason is there to assume it was aquatic? The connection between...
2005 Evol.Anthrop.14:5 B.Thierry Why do humans have continuously growing head hair? Neufeld and Conroy1 recently wrote that they had been unable to find any ...
Newscientist Dec 10 05 Oxygen blast as enemy for those with COPD Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease: seveere inflamatory lung disease, chronic bronchitis,...
Roger Crinion gave me permission to forward his email below to AAT. Roger has an enormous comparative knowledge. He compared our descended hyoid to suction...
IMO. Sebum "originally" was a carrier for acidic compounds which protected the whole body against alkaline & saline tolerant microbes. + Eccrine sweat was a...
Whirlpool baths: enter at your own risk By Megan Rauscher Thu Mar 2, 10:46 AM ET NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Better think twice before soothing those aching...
"Backward evolution" spawns ape-like people If our ancestors ever knuckle-walked, these people would not have been palmigrade. --Marc [Non-text portions of...
I've read most of "Survival of the Fattest", which claims that human brain development was spurred on by nutrients gained by eating freshwater plants and...
Proceedings: Biological Sciences 273:687-692 The evolution of parental care and egg size: a comparative analysis in frogs Kyle Summers, Christian Sea McKeon &...
If eccrene skin glands are for sweat-cooling or for grip-friction, then why does dog scrotal skin contain eccrene sweat glands? Eccrene skin glands developed...
J.exp.Biol.209:633-644 Effects of limb mass distribution on mechanical power outputs during quadrupedalism DA Raichlen 2006 Many researchers have suggested...
I recently read something dating the commencement of man-made images to the dates of cave and rock art and it set off a series of questions for me. Cave art...
Fossil turns back clock New find in China shows mammals were larger and appeared earlier than believed, living side by side with dinosaurs instead of after...
HD Rundle, Felix Breden, CE Griswold, AO Mooers, RA Vos & Jeannette Whitton 2001 Hybridization without guilt: gene flow and the biological species concept ...
PNAS online before print 10.1073/pnas.0508681103 Body size, body proportions, and encephalization in a Middle Pleistocene archaic human from northern China ...
Gareth Jones & Emma C Teeling 2006 The evolution of echolocation in bats TREE press Recent molecular phylogenies have changed our perspective on the evolution...
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2006/02/060223090245.htm Researchers have identified 3 new species of lemurs, the small, big-eyed primates native to the...
... Most students think Oreop was an arboreal folivore. Even if it waded parttime on 2 legs, this was probably in parallel with the early hominids, since in...
This was just reported on the Yahoo paleoanthropology group. I have never heard mention of this discovery before, and I was hoping someone might be able to...
DE Wildman, Caoyi Chen, Offer Erez, LI Grossman, Morris Goodman & Roberto Romero 2006 Evolution of the mammalian placenta revealed by phylogenetic analysis ...
Lewis Halsey, PJ Butler & TM Blackburn 2006 A phylogenetic analysis of the allometry of diving American Naturalist 167:276-287 The oxygen store/usage...
I was so happy to see Elaine's name back on the list! Everyone who has been contributing has had very brilliant ideas, and I appreciate each writer except...
Science News Mag. July 23 05 Snail eating Caterpillars in Hawaii Hyposmocoma molluscivora spins silk strands around a resting snail, then reaches in the...
A Swimming Mammaliaform from the Middle Jurassic and Ecomorphological Diversification of Early Mammals Qiang Ji, Zhe-Xi Luo, Chong-Xi Yuan & Alan R Tabrum 2006...
